Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole
Peter Seamus O'Toole was a British-Irish stage and film actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company before making his film debut in 1959...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth2 August 1932
CountryIreland
father good-day home
When my father would come home from the track after a good day, the whole room would light up; it was fairyland. But when he lost, it was black. In our house, it was always either a wake ... or a wedding.
girlfriend night together
George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.
psychology cannibalism
I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.
rogues males my-own
My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.
artist ego pixar
Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.
Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.
asked century few halfway hang occurred various
A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, 'Well, hang on buddy. I've done half a century of this.'
business plumbing
My plumbing is no one's business but my own.
ends
No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.
means retired truth
I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.
birthday front man saw
I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.
acquire flies minor multiply sports
All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.
bad education few ponder suggest
I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.
If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.